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From Comodo:
Comodo Backup features data backup, online storage, scheduling, self-restore, everything you could ever need from your favorite data maintenance software. Main feature is Online Backup. Keep your important files safe and access them from any computer. You can listen to music, view pictures, play videos and others directly from online storage. The new wizard scans and categorizes all your data into file type for easy backup. Save your backups as custom profiles and you can run them any time with a single click. Burn your backups to optical media. Clone disk and partition. Quickly clone disks or partitions by processing only used sectors. New features WinPE rescue disc Backup settings for email and messenger clients. All your custom settings are stored so when you restore you don't need to reconfigure the program. The backup images can be checked automatically before restore or after backup. Schedule every X minutes. You can set the backup to run at any time interval you need.

View the information inside a backup by right clicks on the file. Logs include more information such as the size of the backup image and the size of the data backed up. Run as invoker. The User Account Control prompt doesn't appear anymore with every start of the program. Innovation & technology Incremental email backup. It backs up only the information that changed since the last backup. Only new conversations are copied to backup. Each user now gets 5GB free online storage.

Difficult to understand. Not intuitive. It gives a "simple copy" along with other options, but "simple copy" does not work. It copies all the folder names but none of the folders contain any files. To make matters worse Comodo does not allow you to choose which external drive you wish to use. It kept going to the F: drive when I wanted it to go to the E: drive. An error message "error creating destination folder" kept coming up while supposedly copying folders with no files.
Comodo ran for 3 hours with this error message on each attempt to backup. Comodo has an error message sheet but it did not contain the "error creating destination folder" and no trouble shooting information. As a result it wasted time and effort with no results. Tried repeatedly to get simple copy to work without success. As another individual posted it is " Pathetic". Who would want to pay to upgrade this software that should work from the get-go. Avoid this free software like the plague...

An easy and reliable backup program. I have been using quite heavily a long time. I didn't encounter any problem so far. Very safe to rely on Comodo Backup when you are about to get image of your HDD. No any problem on Windows 8.1. One click and sit back Comodo does the rest.

Cons

Interface a bit complicated. There are several types of backup on the first interface as well as on Backup menu option. You are a bit confusing on which is which...
Backup a bit slower then I experienced from other types of Backup programs.

Creating a Boot disk option is a bit complicated.

Summary

Its safe, great and FREE. Reliable and I would say its better then Acronis Backup. unless you are using it for Work or very important file backup. Comodo is ideal for HOME users.

NONE. Even free software should have some integrity. As a person who has designed programs, systems, and websites over 25 years, I can say that I have never seen any software so poorly thought out in my entire career. These developers and their company should be ashamed of themselves.

Cons

There are so many cons, I don't even know where to begin.
I will say, though, that it would be nice if some thought was put into ease of use and, at least, some intuitive structure. Working with this software makes simply makes no sense. For example, let's say you have a folder structure such as \users\first user\my documents and \users\second user\my documents. And, let's say you use the software to do a simple copy from the C-drive to an external G-drive. Wouldn't you like to see \users\first user\my documents and \users\second user\my documents on the G-drive? Well...you won't. Instead, what you will see is TWO "my documents" listed. WHAT?!!! How do you determine which is which. This is only one of MANY MANY MANY problems with this software.

Summary

Free or not...this software is garbage. If this software would have worked, I would have gladly written a check for $200 and sent it to the company. Literally!!! But, after wasting huge blocks of time on this software, all I can do is encourage the rest of you not to waste your time. At least I can help you. I wish I could give this product 1/10 of one star. It truly is that bad. Oh, and by the way, forget any support. They MIGHT get back to you in two weeks. Usually, they just forget you. Again, even free software should have integrity.

After uninstalling and re-installing I still cannot get the online backup server to recognize my account for login. Even after a reset of password...it's a "no go". Try registering as a new user and I get this user has an account message. Maybe hours later they'll have the user data updated? MozyHome works and it's also free. I just thought since I use Comodo's Chrome browser "Dragon" it would be nice to have same company's backup. Sorry, Comodo, this time you failed badly. Failure to set-up accounts will doom a great idea every time.

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